{"id":161,"date":"2006-01-09T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T23:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-02-11T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T04:14:45","slug":"porting-barcamp-to-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Porting BarCamp to religion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/01\/08\/barcamp_comes_to_la_.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> has a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcamp.org\/\">BarCamp,<\/a> an overnight un-conference for techies where everybody&#8217;s a participant, where everybody has to make a presentation, and where everybody&#8217;s reponsible for getting their presentation up on the Web so that those couldn&#8217;t attend can still participate at a distance. Open registration happens on the Web, and the word goes out via the existing social networks of the seed group.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;d attend a BarCamp for religion geeks. Admittedly, they&#8217;d have to be religion geeks who are tech-savvy, because I&#8217;d want to stick with posting all presentations on the Web. But I can imagine 24 hours of presentations and networking about theology, and maybe technology used in religion &#8212; an intense dose of the kinds of discussions we already have in the Unitarian Universalist blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>No, I know it&#8217;s not realistic. My sense of religious liberals is that, generally speaking, we&#8217;re not tech-savvy enough, and that we&#8217;re generally unwilling to discuss theology. But if I were going to make techno-theological BarCamp happen here in the northeastern United States, my social network actually has quite a number of people who would fit right in: the usual bloggers; some people who have created very cool church Web sites; seminary students including one who also has an MBA from MIT; a couple of theologians; then assorted ministers and lay leaders who are into theology and not afraid of computers.<\/p>\n<p>And if tehcno-theological BarCamp did happen, not only would it be very very fun but it might actually shake up the staid stodgy world of religious liberalism, injecting it with a saving dose of theological speculation and technological savvy. So I&#8217;m throwing the idea out there, expecting the idea will fall into a black hole, but you never know&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later post<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=163\">on BarCamp and religion<\/a> giving my personal vision for how BarCamp might combine technology and religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing has a post on BarCamp, an overnight un-conference for techies where everybody&#8217;s a participant, where everybody has to make a presentation, and where everybody&#8217;s reponsible for getting their presentation up on the Web so that those couldn&#8217;t attend can still participate at a distance. Open registration happens on the Web, and the word goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}